Senior Product Developer – Candy & Confectionery (All Genders)

YOU & AHEAD At ahead, we are on a mission to clean up the world’s candy drawers. We make the snacks everyone actually craves: chocolate bars, protein bars, wafers, cookies, gummies and more. Our products contain up to 90% less sugar with zero compromise on taste. We are a 130-person team based in Hamburg, with our own lab, a portfolio of more than 170 SKUs and ambitious growth plans across D2C, retail, Amazon and Europe. We are looking for a Senior Product Developer for Candy & Confectionery to own the technical development of our portfolio from the first brief through formulation, sensory validation, scale-up and launch. As our Senior Product Developer, you will bring technical depth to one of our most important categories and make sure every decision works in the real world: in the recipe, in the factory and in the customer’s hands. Are you a food developer who knows how to turn a great idea into a product people genuinely love? Someone who can balance taste, texture, stability, cost, compliance and timing while getting the product over the line? If you like taking ownership and enjoy solving real product problems, we would love to hear from you! YOUR TASKS End-to-End Product Development: You own candy and confectionery projects from brief to launch. You translate requirements into clear technical targets, develop and optimise formulations, oversee trials, sensory validation and technical decisions. Sugar Reduction & Product Performance: You develop reduced-sugar and no-add